 George Mason George Mason was born in 1725 to George and Ann Thomson Mason. When the boy was 10 years old his father died, and young George's upbringing was left in the care of his uncle, John Mercer. The future jurist's education was profoundly shaped by the contents of his uncle's 1500-volume library, one-third of which concerned the law.
Biography and Career :
George Mason established himself as an im ... Date added: 27 November '07 |
 Arthur Neville Chamberlain Arthur Neville Chamberlain was the eldest son of the second marriage of Joseph Chamberlain, Lord Mayor of Birmingham, and a half-brother to Austen, later Sir Austen Chamberlain and he was born on March 18, 1869. He was a British Conservative politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1937 to 1940.
Biography and Career :
Joseph's first wife had died shortly after giving birth to ... Date added: 21 November '07 |
 Letter of a student to his parents by Cristina Nuta -
Dear mother and father,
I am writing to you because I want to tell you the latest things that have happened to me since the last letter I have sent you. Now I am feeling very good, the wounds I had after the fire I had provoked in my room, are practically cured. It was my fault because I left the iron in the plug and then I left the room. Well, I think the most important ... Date added: 15 May '07 |
 A Good Language Teacher Makes His Students Understand the Meaning of Education by Herminne Tonita -
More and more students who graduate the Faculty of Letters and should become teachers choose to work in any other field of activity, except for their own. Why does this happen? Aren't they meant for becoming a good teacher? What are the tips that make a teacher a good one?
On the one hand to a teacher is equivalent to be an example of patience, hard working, devotement a ... Date added: 24 April '07 |
 The strategies used in inclusive education The major objective of inclusive education is the correlation of the school to the special needs of the children with various disabilities.
Among the advantages of the inclusive school is the optimization of the quality of the education by increasing the number of the students who had a progressive evolution in school.
The strategies used in inclusive education are:
1. Daily experiences o ... Date added: 16 January '08 |
 Teacher's Involvement in the Partenership Between Family and School Each teacher who has in his collectivity a child with disability react after a long reflection. An important point of his intervention is collaboration with the parents and their counseling, their direct involving in working with the children, not just as an observer but as participants.
Teachers must help the children’s parents with disabilities to take care for themselves, by that offering a ... Date added: 15 January '08 |
 Education patterns for students with disabilities A good education is a ticket to success in our society; it is a predictor of success in later life, in terms of employment, income, and independence.
Students with disabilities are entitled to special education, or specially designed instruction, to meet the unique needs of the child. There is a perception that students with disabilities should have a separate system, called special education, ... Date added: 04 February '08 |
 The Education of the Gipsy Children : one of the biggest challenges of the social economical and cultural environment from Romania by Monique Barb -
The education of the gipsy children represents one of the biggest challenges of the social, economical and cultural environment from Romania. It `s a part of a larger problem – the children who are in situations of being left–out, excluded for different reasons – who needs various approaches in function of many specific parameters: residence area, the belonging to an ethnic ... Date added: 20 October '06 |
 School Abandon Among Minorities in Romania by Monique Barb -
School abandon meaning : leaving school at an early age, leaving school before the final exams, difficulties in learning, failure in exams at different levels etc, represents an important problem of the Romanian system of education due to the profound implications in the social community life in which the minorities live.
The notion of „School abandon” is used in the sen ... Date added: 20 October '06 |
 TV Addicted Children by Herminne Tonita -
In a society where almost all mothers have a full time job and we all ear to leave our children play outside alone, you wonder what you should do to prevent your children from becoming TV addicted.
Many times, the new born have indirect access to the TV even before they get to learn to talk or to walk. He becomes aware of the moving images around him. At the age of about ... Date added: 31 May '07 |
 About Cambridge by Cristina Nuta -
Cambridge is situated at a distance of fifty miles from London. It is one of the loveliest towns of England and the Cambridge area today is sometimes referred to as Silicon Fen, due to the growth of high tech businesses and technology incubators that have sprung up in the series of science parks and other developments in and around the city. The dominating factor in Cambridge ... Date added: 18 May '07 |
 Lesson Plan : A Better Communication English Teaching : Lesson Planning
Teaching aim :
- to create a comfortable atmosphere where students are not afraid to speak and enjoy communicating
- to present and give practice in Genitive apostrophe s ('s) developing speaking ability
Learning aim : - to improve their knowledge so that they can use the new structure to talk about themselves
Personal aim : to talk less myself and ... Date added: 04 April '08 |
 A Good Teacher is a Strict Teacher by Diana Trusca -
One of the most important parts in the healthy development of an infant is played by education. But the way in which education is perceived has changed radically, as we must not forget that the harsh and unfeeling way of bringing up a child in the past was primarily based on ruthless grounding and stern rules that were supposed to create accomplished individuals, the typical ... Date added: 20 January '07 |
 Better Late Than Never ... Does it Apply in Education? by Monique Barb -
We observe nowadays children are rude. It is "cool" to be impolite. We hardly get to see a child or a teenager being polite and educated. I wonder whose fault is this? Are the teenagers guilty or their parents ?
We do things when we want to do. We do what we want to do. But is this a good thing or not ? We say it is better late than never, but there are things that need to ... Date added: 04 February '07 |
 Language Teaching : The Grammar Translation Method by Monique Barb -
Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching by Richards and Rogers (2002), classifies language teaching methods as the “dominant language of education, commerce, religion and government in the Western world”. Latin was once the most widely studied foreign language. Even after French, Italian and English took over its place. The study of classical Latin and an analysis of its ... Date added: 07 February '07 |
 Language Teaching : Opportunities for Interaction by Monique Barb -
Children naturally use their mother tongue with any other person who knows it. When children find themselves in the company of others, particularly their peers, who speak other languages (or other dialects of their qwn language) then they will make an effort to understand and use the new language. In an ideal world, we would be able to arrange regular meetings between our lan ... Date added: 08 February '07 |
 Education Is What Survives When What Has Been Learnt Is Forgotten by Herminne Tonita -
We have a saying that the first seven years of our lives are the foundation of our personality. This time of our lives is the one that shapes up our character,that makes us realise what is good and what is bad for our future.
Our parents take care of us, but at the same time they give us advice on how to speak, how to behave in society, what manners to adopt, what are we ... Date added: 14 February '07 |
 School Is More Important Than Family by Herminne Tonita -
There are so many arguments for and against this statement. If we take into consideration the hours spent by each child at school and those in house we could agree with what they say. Especially in the USA children spend almost the entire day at school, where they have classes, but they also do their homework, eat or relax with their classmates. They go home just to change ... Date added: 16 February '07 |
 Learning What You Didn't Even Know You Didn't Know Defines Education by Diana-Mara Anghelina -
There is a saying going round our country: "Only the stupid people are happy!" The truth which lies behind this saying is that the people who have learned a bit during their lives have no hunger for more! On the other hand, those of us who have been more hard-working in what the education is concerned are always eager to learn more. Each day that goes by should never b ... Date added: 22 February '07 |
 There Is No Question About the Fact That School Provides Us With a Solid Education by Diana-Mara Anghelina -
There is no question about the fact that school provides us with a solid education. This includes specific knowledge about the subjects we have studied during the school years, but also a sound strategy of analyzing and solving different situations that may come up during our lives.
There are many people finishing school with the best possible grades and not master ... Date added: 22 February '07 |
 Education is an Ornament in Prosperity and a Refuge in Adversity by Diana-Mara Anghelina -
From the first years of our lives, we are being educated, in one way or the other. Parents are the first ones to be responsible for a child's education, as they have to start teaching us the most simple concepts that will help us define a personality for a lifetime.
The children may be receptive or not, depending on the methods and principles adopted by the parents ... Date added: 23 February '07 |
 Home Education vs School Education by Diana-Mara Anghelina -
The schools are said to be the places where children can get the proper education, in order to have a successful career and achieve all the goals they may set in life. The teachers usually have the necessary training to offer their pupils a very solid knowledge in numerous fields of study, but also a certain amount of education to build on.
Should a particular scho ... Date added: 28 February '07 |
 School Study vs Home Study by Herminne Tonita -
Due to the increasing number of violence acts produced in schools all over the world, more and more parents prefer to have their children educated at home rather than at school. This way they can assure their safety and well-being. Teachers and school representatives are trying to improve the situation in schools by increasing the number of the persons in charge with the sa ... Date added: 06 March '07 |
 Education : Better Late than Never by Cristina Nuta -
Few days ago I met a good friend of mine. He was very sad and we began to talk as he felt the need to tell me what was wrong with him. He had a great hobby: football, like the majority of boys. But he took it seriously and he even played in good clubs. Anyway, it finally resulted to be a waste of time because he could not manage to have the results he had wished to. But his p ... Date added: 07 March '07 |
 The Role of Physical Education in the Development of Children by Herminne Tonita -
Schools in Europe devote 1 to 3 hours per week to physical education. Doctors warn that this is much too little. Statistics clearly demonstrate that societies in which physical education gets less time and attention in the school curriculum suffer from more spinal defects and flat foot, and are generally less healthy and more disease prone. Still, lots of pupils, especiall ... Date added: 08 March '07 |
 Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve by Cristina Nuta -
There are many children who don't have a good relationship with their families. They complain about the fact that their parents do not know how to communicate with them and that the only thing they know to do is how to impose their point of view each time.
But is this a correct attitude towards our children? Have parents the right to just give their children answers to re ... Date added: 16 April '07 |
 Some parents make mistakes when trying to give an education to their children by Cristina Nuta -
Some parents make mistakes when trying to give an education to their children and this can have negative consequences later in their children's lives. In this respect, we are going to mention a very interesting case: the one when parents do their best in order to offer their children all they need, no matter the sacrifices.
Well, if we were to think about this we would sa ... Date added: 18 April '07 |
 The advantages of being an Erasmus student by Cristina Nuta -
In the late years, Romania has started to collaborate with foreign countries and to send students in countries like Spain, Italy, Germany, America or France. Students can choose to spend one or two semesters in one of these countries, in order to experience another modality of education.
If we were to analyze the advantages of being an Erasmus student, we could say that o ... Date added: 23 April '07 |
 Do pupils in the countryside receive proper education by Cristina Nuta -
I have recently met my cousin who lives in the countryside and who is in the seventh grade. We talked about various subjects, and one of them was school. I asked her which were her plans for the future in what concerned education and if she was contented with the educational system in her school.
I could notice she was a little put into difficulty because of my questions. ... Date added: 23 April '07 |
 Are teachers a good example for students? by Cristina Nuta -
According to a recent survey, teachers are not anymore considered good examples for students. The latter consider that the basis in their education is given by their parents at home. The education children receive in family is the most important for their social life and the one which is supposed to be gained in school is of less importance.
At school, students have other ... Date added: 25 April '07 |
 Have young people forgotten their manners? by Cristina Nuta -
One comment that is frequently overheard nowadays is that young people lack the manners that their parents' generation expects them to have. Although it is true that there is a difference in the generations, I do not believe that it is fair to say that today’s youths have bad manners.
In the first place, the fact that young people do not always shake hands merely reflects ... Date added: 29 June '07 |
 Changes in our Lives by Cristina Nuta -
The biggest turning point in my life so far was undoubtedly the day I left home to go to the college. At the age of eighteen, I wasn't apart from my parents more than two weeks so I viewed my new independence with a mixture of apprehension and excitement.
Immediately prior for leaving home, I had been on holiday with some friends, so I cannot say what I had had the chance ... Date added: 29 June '07 |
 How to help parents cope with homework by Cristina Nuta -
A recent research shows that four of five parents agree that they should be more involved in their children's learning, even though two thirds claimed to be giving at least two hours a week.
More surprising, perhaps, is teachers' apparent enthusiasm for parental involvement. Not long ago, schools seemed to associate parents with intrusion into their territory: spying in ... Date added: 07 July '07 |
 Why is literature important in our lives? by Cristina Nuta -
Having a great collection of books at home doesn't really mean that you are a person who has a passion for literature and reading. It can be a family inheritance or it can be just to impress people around you, about the fact that you are a person of culture. On the other hand, there are many persons who cannot afford buying books, because some of them are quite expensive, but ... Date added: 09 July '07 |
 Do you like historical stories? by Cristina Nuta -
I have always liked history. I remember that during my years at school I was always excited by the History lessons to come, because it was a real pleasure for me to find out new things about our past, even if the majority of my colleagues hated History and could not understand how I could like it so much. They felt horrified when we had test-papers in History because it was a ... Date added: 09 July '07 |
 Should a good mother give up her job to stay at home with her children? by Cristina Nuta -
Sometimes parents spoil too much their children, because they offer them too much attention and try to carry out all their wishes: they buy children all the toys they want, the clothes they wish or the sweets they adore. It is true that a good mother wants her child to be happy and to spend with him or her the most time possible. Anyway, it is sometimes advisable for mothers ... Date added: 03 August '07 |
 What do you think about single mothers? by Cristina Nuta -
For many years, women have fought for their rights and independence in front of men, and the consequences have been positive as they sometimes have proved to be as powerful as men are considered to be. Moreover, they have showed to be capable of raising children by themselves, without the need of a man to support them.
In my opinion, single mothers are capable of giving th ... Date added: 06 August '07 |
 Do you often read to your children? by Cristina Nuta -
I remember my childhood was a happy one. I used to spend a lot of time with my parents and we were very close one with the other. We enjoyed spending a lot of time in the parks or somewhere outside the house, and it’s a real pleasure for me to take the family album and revive those moments of happiness.
One of the things that characterises my childhood is the fact that al ... Date added: 07 August '07 |
 My Child is Afraid of School by Herminne Tonita -
The first day of school is not for all children the most beautiful one. Some of them are really happy and enthusiastic and others don't feel at ease when they enter the classroom for the first time.
Starting with the first grade school becomes the child's second home. Sometimes it represents a reason for frustration and lack of comfort. For these newly pupils the most im ... Date added: 26 August '07 |
 Mother of a Rebel by Herminne Tonita -
"Mum you are so old fashioned!" Sounds familiar? If so, welcome to the club of the mothers with rebel teenagers.
It can happen to any person to be considered an old fashioned parent, no matter what degree of education the child has or not. It is useless to try and keep step with fashion. They see it all completely different. Take a deep breath and face the situation. You ... Date added: 31 August '07 |
 Why do Children Refuse to Learn Well? by Herminne Tonita -
Parents and teachers blame each other. Children are not stimulated sufficiently.
Mathematics seems to be the subject which bothers the pupils the most but at the same time literature classes are almost a catastrophe. The studies reveal worrying results.
A 45 years old woman, Manuela has 4 children. "Taking care of them is the hardest job in this world and it fills up ... Date added: 14 September '07 |
 Stereotypes and Prejudices Prevent Progress by Herminne Tonita -
We all look for something better in our lives and one of the ways by which we achieve it is by progress. But there things like stereotypes and prejudices who prevent this progress. There are many reticent people who don't want to accept the fact things can change and what seemed indecent or inappropriate in the past is now a normal thing.
When in the 20s the first women ... Date added: 20 September '07 |
 Are Parents Responsible For Their Children's Mistakes? by Herminne Tonita -
Many times when children make a mistakes starting with breaking a window while playing football or skipping classes and ending with stealing something or fighting with another child parents are always blamed by the society for not having known how to educate their off- springs. The situation is not that easy to explain.
Parents always look for the best interest of their ... Date added: 20 September '07 |
 Possessive Mothers by Herminne Tonita -
Possessive mothers who don't allow their children to discover independency deny their right to be happy.
I think that for someone to call you a good parent you have to know when to let your children feel free, you have to allow them to realize on their on skin what means to live on their own. Even if it is possible that they get hurt. Otherwise they risk becoming inadapt ... Date added: 25 September '07 |
 The inclusive school - education for all, all together "Inclusive education implies a continuous process of improving the school unit, having as aim the exploitation of the existing resources, especially of the human ones, in order to sustain the participation at the process of teaching all pupils within one community."
(MEM and UNICEF, 1999)
The basic principle of inclusive education – learning for all, all together, creates a desideratum, as wel ... Date added: 07 January '08 |
 The inclusive school - a school of the future where everybody is welcome Definition of the concept
The concept can be defined in two ways:
a) In a strict sense it is the same thing as the special teaching or the specialized teaching for children with disabilities
b) In a generic sense the concept can be extended to any type of special teaching for the children with difficulties in learning or development.
The principles :
Every one is unique and important ... Date added: 07 January '08 |
 Education for all Education for all corresponds to the inclusive school within school education. Strictly speaking, this school refers to all children’s integration in a school form whatever their capacities and abilities of both adaptation and learning. Broadly speaking, this sort of education deals with helping all the students work to the benefit of all educational factors concerned.
Instruments for describin ... Date added: 07 January '08 |
 Special Education - Necessary for Meeting Special Needs The early days of the contemporary era have been characterized by changes within the attitude of the community towards the so-called people with special needs. Within groups of people with special needs, those facing mental or physical problems represents a particular entity which needs special and complex socio-psycho-pedagogical assistance. It is worth mentioning that the term “special education ... Date added: 10 January '08 |
 Pupils with learning difficulties The school learning difficulties represent the whole learning process in the activity disturbance but also in the whole system operation.
Characteristics of the pupils with learning difficulties:
- deficiency individual character makes different all the pupils with difficulties in learning;
- common characteristics - special educational requests, pupils with mental deficiency who have not t ... Date added: 10 January '08 |
 What implies the inclusive education? « The inclusive education implies a permanent process of improving the school institution, having the aim of exploiting the existing resources, especially the human resources, in order to sustain the participation of all the community students to the educational process. »(MEN, UNICEF,1999)
The inclusive schools are open, friendly, tolerant, democratic and comprehensive schools , without disc ... Date added: 10 January '08 |
 Education for everyone Education for everyone can be a good means of improving education in general by reconsidering the support given to certain children. The manner in which a series of development and learing partucularities determins dividing children in determined categories tends to be replaced by a non categorial manner, which considers that any child is a person who can learn in a certain pace and style and so h ... Date added: 10 January '08 |
 The inclusive school, a school in motion The integrated education, it is seen as a process with an education totally different of the traditional one in which take place reformulations of concepts and theories linked to the normalization as a process through which the acces to the existential patterns and to the daily life conditions can be assured, as close as possible to the normal characteristics of life, for all classes of persons, i ... Date added: 10 January '08 |
 The Alternative of Integrative Education The essay "The Alternative of Integrative Education" is trying to present, in the first, the beginnings of inclusive education, and the reasons why this kind of education is a good alternative.
I consider appropriate to discuss again the reasons for and the reasons against an inclusive school. The very first reason is maybe to respect a right. Every human being has the right to receive a prope ... Date added: 13 January '08 |
 Inclusive Education Strategies for Pupils with Special Needs Nowadays teaching, with all its transformations, can't overlook pupils' development particularities, and therefore not looking for new methods to integrate them. Inclusive school respondes to these requirements, in whose necesities we can find changing old ways of thinking, concerning different pupils, (meanig pupils with specil necesities.) Different pupils can be a part of those with high leve ... Date added: 13 January '08 |
 A New Way of Giving Children with Disabilities Equal Opportunities A New Way of Giving Children with Disabilities Equal Opportunities in the Learning Process
The purpose of inclusive education is that of giving children with disabilities a chance of fully participating in the learning process. But for them to fully benefit the learning process special methods must be applied in everyday classroom activities. The teacher must help these children become more awa ... Date added: 13 January '08 |
 The Syndrome of Institutionalization The term institutionalisation is widely used in social theory to denote the process of making something (for example a concept, a social role, particular values and norms, or modes of behaviour) become embedded within an organisation, social system, or society as an established custom or norm within that system.
The term 'institutionalisation' may also be used to refer to the committing by a s ... Date added: 15 January '08 |
 Equal opportunities for all The world today is evolving on a new route or idea: equality and the concept that by being equal, all humans should be bestowed upon with equal possibilities in life! But are they? Whilst reflecting on this, it is clear that equality should go as a way of life and not as a vision or something impossible to attain.
By the very definition, disabilities are "a loss or limitation to one’s physical ... Date added: 15 January '08 |
 Aspects of teaching for inclusive school In our pedagogic literature is used frequently the concept of school improvement, which suppose: "orientation towards action and continuous professional developing of the school, concretes changing in the curriculum, active partnership with other schools or community institutions, opening towards the real needs of the pupils and the community, creation of a school environment favorable to understa ... Date added: 16 January '08 |
 The Kindergarten - an Inclusive Institution The inclusive education has in view an institutionalized modality of schooling children with special needs and problems in common schools and classes.
The integrated educational system for the children with special problems has more dimensions:
- the legislative and administrative dimension , referring to the educational politics means that the schooling of these children is an integrated p ... Date added: 16 January '08 |
 The Role of the Educative Factors in the Achievement of Inclusive Education " … I am the child. You are holding my destiny in your hands.
You mostly decide , if I succed or fail in my life!
Please, give me those things which lead me to happiness.
Grow me up, please, to be able to bless the world"
(from "Child's Appeal", Manie Jene Cole)
The inclusive education has ,as a fundamental principle, an education for all, an education with all – ... Date added: 16 January '08 |
